Word: lande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigger Army job. But subsequently the Army officially denied that he was even in Poland, said he had applied for active duty, been refused. He was not listed among the top six Generals in Poland, although he outranked all of them but Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces Brauchitsch...
...More completely devastated than any country except Belgium, Poland had 11,000,000 acres of farm land put out of use, lost 6,000,000 acres of forest. Her textile industry was smashed, foundries and steel works shut down. War with Bolshevik Russia lasted two years after the general peace...
...from nothing to 112,600 tons; built the port of Gdynia on the Baltic from a town of 400 in 1923 to one of 150,000 in 1939; purchased 6,000,000 acres from large landowners to create 700,000 new farms in a broad and progressive program of land distribution...
...knowledge that Britain and France were no longer the whalebones in China's financial corset. The Army's greatest blessing was that it no longer had Russia to fear. Soldiers read reports from Domei, the official news agency, telling that in the no man's land of the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolian border, a Japanese lieutenant colonel and a Soviet major general stepped from cars decorated with white flags and shook hands in formal recognition of their truce. Domei reported nothing, not even the gist, of their conversation. All it said was that the Japanese officer "made...
Macdonald also counted the only touchdown of the day via the land route when he galloped 40 yards to pay dirt on a neat piece of broken field running. The game was not a genuine one, however, because the two teams simply alternated carrying the pigskin from the midfield stripe. They each had the ball for groups of five plays...